12 Battle for Azeroth Leveling Tips by HazelNuttyGames

Live Posted 2018/08/09 at 2:04 PM by perculia

HazelNuttyGames makes WoW videos and streams on YouTube, with a focus on news, guides, and battle pets.Tip One: Plan Your Zone Order

You'll have to do them all eventually for BFA Pathfinder

I you're coming into this with raid gear and good legendaries, you want to target the toughest zones first in terms of mob density in questing areas and scaling. For Alliance, that's Drustvar > Tiragarde > Stormsong and for Horde that's Vol'dun > Zuldazar > Nazmir.

If you're coming in without set bonuses and BiS legendaries, you want to do those zones later with the benefit of a bit of Azerite armor. In that case, reverse it. Stormsong > Tiragarde > Drustvar for Alliance and Nazmir > Zuldazar > Vol'dun for Horde.

See which legendaries are best in our leveling guides!

Tip Two: Don't Get Stuck on Tricky Quests

Don't get held up on problematic quests. If you're trying to do a quest and it's frustrating you, just go quest elsewhere and come back to it. The questing content is set up in hubs that aren't really all that linear, so odds are great you can find something else to do.

Also, before you give up search the quest name on Wowhead to see if anyone has solutions in the comments.

Tip Three: Choose Gathering Professions

Take Herbalism and Mining if you're not attached to your profession slots. Herb nodes in particular are everywhere, and you get an extra little exp each time you gather while out questing.

Learn more about these professions in our Herbalism and Mining guides!

Tip Four: Scrap Gear for Materials

Don't vendor quest reward gear- keep it for the scrapper. In your capital city is located a device kind of like the Obliterum Forge but more useful for non-crafters. You put in gear, it spits out trade materials. Doesn't matter where you got the gear.

Even if you don't need trade materials, selling them will almost definitely get you more than vendoring quest items.

Learn more in the Guide to the Scrapper!

Tip Five: Pick Useful Azerite Traits

Pick Azerite armor traits that are helpful while leveling. As you quest, you'll come across pieces of Azerite armor and have to make choices about the traits.

You'll get higher item level stuff at 120 and replace the leveling pieces anyways, so don't worry about picking the best raiding traits. If you're having difficulty staying alive, pick self healing traits.

Learn more in our guides to Azerite Armor, Heart of Azeroth and Azerite Traits Guides. Use the Azerite Finder to find the gear with your best combo of traits.

Tip Six: Turn On War Mode

You can level in War Mode for 10% more Experience- but your experience may vary.

Remember that you can go back to SW or Org to turn it off if it ends up causing you more setbacks.

You can stack up a log full of completed quests while out of War Mode, then go turn it on and turn them in.

War Campaign questing in War Mode is more dangerous due to higher amounts of enemy faction players.

War Mode can only be toggled in Stormwind/Orgrimmar- not Boralus or Dazar’Alor.

Learn more about this system in our War Mode Guide and visit the Talent & Build Guides for best War Mode talents for every spec while leveling!

Tip Seven: Work on War Campaign

Keep up with the War Campaign as you level. Slows you down via travel time, but will need to be done eventually so you may as well earn the experience from them.

You'll need to have those done to unlock a variety of things including:
Access to the Mission Table of Battle for Azeroth, as well as 5 Champions by the time you're done with the Campaign;

Access to the enemy continent;

Access to the War Effort Advancements, equivalent to the Order Hall Advancements of Legion;

Access to the 7th Legion and Honorbound Reputations;
Revered with them is required for Azerothian Diplomat, required for Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part One, and Exalted is required to unlock the Dark Iron Dwarf and Mag'har Orc Allied Races.

Flight Master's WhistleReady for War

Check out our Alliance War Campaign and Horde War Campaign guides for more info! Track your War Campaign progress in the BFA Attunement Tracker.

Tip 8: Don't Go After Every Rare/Treasure

Rare mobs and treasures don't provide significant exp. Go after them if it feels fun and you're in the mood, but don't expect it to speed up your leveling in any way.

Also, rare mob gear only drops once and scales to your level- you may need it to fill a problematic slot at 120 as you start gearing.

Tip 9: Socket 5% Experience Gem

The Rubellite is a unique-equipped gem that grants an extra 5% experience earned. On beta, it was stacking when socketed into different pieces of gear.

Check out our BFA Jewelcrafting Guide for more info!

Tip 10: Use Guild Banner

Throw down one of these Battle Standard of Coordination for an extra 15% mob killing exp within 100 yards for 15 minutes, on a 10 minute cooldown. Lots of quests take place in isolated areas where you can take advantage of this, so make sure you have one on you.

Drag it to your bar for easy deployment.

If you're leveling with guildmates, coordinate your banners to cover more ground or alternate covering each questing area.

Check out more useful items in Wowhead's Leveling Guide!

Tip 11: Acquire Reputation for World Quests

You will need friendly with each of the main leveling factions to get world quests at 120. Prioritize that.

If you do enough dungeons or Archaeology or Herbalism and stay in one zone, you might be able to hit 120 without seeing all of them and then need to go back and catch up.

Prioritize getting at least Friendly reputation with the three zone-based factions.

Check out our BFA Rep Guides for more info!

Tip 12: Know Portal Locations

There are portals to go between Stormwind/Orgrimmar and Boralus/Atal'dazor respectively.

The Boralus ones are located near the fountain of the Tradewinds Market.

The Horde ones are located in a room off the west side of the Great Seal chamber.

To get back, portals are in the Mage Tower for Alliance and the Cleft of Shadows for Horde.

Check out our Warcraft Transportation Guide, Boralus Locations Guide, and Dazar'alor Guide for more travel details!

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Comment by ArrayaOh, they featured Hazel! Hooray!Comment by 7upyourzI don't care about leveling fast. I just want to take my time and experience the story and read the quests ^o^Comment by zhake132The articles zone route for horde is the same for both poor and good gear. Not that it's hard to reverse it by myself but would just point it out ^^Comment by UtenaUnder "Tip One: Plan Your Zone Order," the Horde zones for both options are listed as "Vol'dun > Zuldazar > Nazmir." Which is the corrected suggested order for each option?Comment by NavystylzI don't care about leveling fast. I just want to take my time and experience the story and read the quests ^o^Comment by SprenkGreat to see you partnering with Hazel's channel!Comment by Artio... so do it in a way that's fun for you.Comment by Cambrius13Savour the new content like a fine wine... or guzzle it like a hobo lager? ;)Comment by SethusGlad to see another Wowhead and Hazel colab, she's a great content creator!Comment by Ir0nBrutzlerfor tip 3: Sell it cheap on the AH so you do not waste that much time relisting it and goblins can make more money ;)Comment by FinieousI love Hazel!
She's like a gnome who drank too much caffeine, then got polymorphed into a human with a video camera.Comment by BenugaI don't care about leveling fast. I just want to take my time and experience the story and read the quests ^o^Comment by perculiaThe articles zone route for horde is the same for both poor and good gear. Not that it's hard to reverse it by myself but would just point it out ^^Comment by ColdleoRemovedComment by LazeyI don't agree about ignoring treasures while leveling.. you will need 100 war ressources early in your war campaign, so I'd say you should at least open enough treasures do have them when they're needed.Comment by Paladinmaster44Savour the new content like a fine wine... or guzzle it like a hobo lager? ;)Comment by spleen1015The 5% gems doesn't stack. It will only save you minutes of leveling. It might take you longer to get it than it does the time it saves.Comment by mybelovedchaosI've never been big on racing to level cap. I like to enjoy the world Blizzard has made for me.Comment by TheWhiteCatLove seeing Hazel featured! She is a wonderful content creator and a delight to watch. Definitely my favorite Wow Youtuber. Super helpful guide too!Comment by MelchiahAlexI don't care about leveling fast. I just want to take my time and experience the story and read the quests ^o^

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